Retinal detachment treated with encircling silastic sponge. Further experience.

Retinal detachment treated with encircling silastic sponge. Further experience.

This technique, which has already been described in detail (Chawla, 1970), was used on two aphakic eyes which had already undergone unsuccessful surgery for retinal detachment and had shown early signs of preretinal retraction. Briefly, a 7 mm. silastic sponge is halved lengthwise to produce a broad shallow implant. Monitored cryopexy is applied to the retinal tears and any suspect areas. Subre...

Retinal detachment surgery. Encircling silastic 3-mm. band without evacuation of subretinal fluid.

In retinal detachment surgery, Chawla (I97I) had excellent results using a 7-mm. encircling silastic band, cauterization of the edges of the tear by cryocautery, and evacuation of the subretinal fluid (Schepens, Okamura, and Brockhurst, I957). He felt that the technique was simpler than scleral dissection and safer than the supramid encircling suture. The present study has the following aims: (...

Silastic rod encirclement in retinal detachment surgery.

Controlled encircling procedure for retinal detachment.

The encircling operation for the treatment of retinal detachment is a well established surgical method (Schepens, Okamura, Brockhurst, and Regan, 1960; Regan, Schepens, Okamura, Brockhusrt, and McMeel, I962; Girard and McPherson, I962; Schepens, I964; Brockhurst, I965; Schepens, I968). However, complications do occur and a number of these are related to the tightness of the encircling band. Whe...

Encircling silicone rod without drainage for retinal detachment with giant breaks.